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A

• Windmill and Watermill Collection of Edward Mitford Abraham [Photography]
• Accounting Standards Committee Archive [Archive]
• Accrington Conservative Association and Accrington Conservative Club Archives [Archive]
• Robert Adamson Papers [Archive]
• Agecroft Rowing Club Archive [Archive]
• Alexis Aladin Papers [Archive]
• Aldine Collection [Printed]
• Samuel Alexander Papers [Archive]
• Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners Archive [Archive]
• American Sunday School Union Collection [Printed]
• Anvil Press Archive [Archive]
• Arabic Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Archive [Archive]
• Architectural Printed Works [Printed]
• Arderne Deeds [Archive]
• Lodovico Ariosto Printed Works [Printed]
• David Arkell Papers [Archive]
• Armenian Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Ashburne Hall Collection [Printed]
• Ashton Textile Employers' Association Archive [Archive]
• Association of Certifying Factory Surgeons Archive [Archive]
• Astle Deeds [Archive]
• Auchinleck Papers [Archive]
• Audenshaw Foundation Archive [Archive]
• Auditing Practices Committee Archive [Archive]
• Axon Papers [Archive]

B

• Bagshawe Family Muniments [Archive]
• Henry Baker Papers [Manuscript]
• Bannatyne Club and Maitland Club [Printed]
• Baskerville Press [Printed]
• Mary Bateson Papers [Archive]
• Beaumont Charters [Archive]
• Leonard Behrens Papers [Archive]
• Bellot Papers [Archive]
• Hugh H. Bellot Book Collection [Printed]
• Benson Collection [Printed]
• Joseph Benson Papers [Archive]
• Bible Collection [Printed]
• Bible in Basic English Collection [Archive]
• Joseph Black Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Harold Blundell (George Bellairs) Papers [Archive]
• Giovanni Boccaccio Printed Works [Printed]
• Giambattista Bodoni Printed Works [Printed]
• Bolton and District Operative Cotton Spinners' Provincial Association Archive [Archive]
• Booker and Mills Map Collections [Maps]
• Botfield Papers [Archive]
• Hugh Bourne Collection [Archive]
• Vivian Bowden Papers [Archive]
• Bowring Papers [Manuscript]
• Dr Bray Clerical Lending Library [Printed]
• Brockbank Cricket Collection [Printed]
• Bromley Davenport Muniments [Archive]
• George L. Brook Drama Collection [Printed]
• George L. Brook Theology Collection [Printed]
• Brooke of Mere Muniments [Archive]
• Bullock Collection [Printed]
• John Bunyan Printed Works [Printed]
• E. L. Burney Book Collection [Printed]
• Lord Byron Printed Works [Printed]

C

• Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre Archive [Archive]
• Carcanet Press Archive [Archive]
• Carcanet Press Book Collection [Printed]
• Carrington Papers [Archive]
• Olga X. Casdagli Book Collection [Printed]
• James Cassedy Book Collection [Printed]
• John Charnley Collection [Archive]
• Children's Printed Collection [Printed]
• Chinese Collection [Printed/Manuscript]
• Christian Brethren Archive [Archive/Printed]
• Christian Women’s Information and Resource Service Archive [Archive/Printed]
• Christie Collection [Printed]
• W. M. Christy and Sons Ltd. Archive [Archive]
• Richard Church Papers [Archive]
• Adam Clarke Papers [Archive]
• Classical Literature [Printed]
• Clayton and Morris Papers [Manuscript]
• Clinton Papers [Archive]
• Clogher Diocesan Library Collection [Printed]
• Clowes Deeds [Archive]
• William Clowes Papers [Archive]
• Richard Cobden Letters [Manuscript]
• Thomas Coke Papers (Methodist Collections) [Archive]
• Margaret Collin Papers [Archive]
• Congregational College Archives [Archive]
• Congregational College Printed Collection [Printed]
• William Mansfield Cooper Papers [Archive]
• Copinger-Hartland Manuscripts Collection [Manuscript]
• Coptic Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Cornwall-Legh Muniments [Archive]
• County Histories [Printed]
• Lewis Court Bible Christian Collection [Archive]
• Brian Cox Papers [Archive]
• Jack Cox Papers [Archive]
• Jack Cox Printed Collection [Printed]
• Walter Crane Archive [Archive]
• Crawford Collection [Manuscript]
• Critical Quarterly Archive [Archive]
• Robert Crozier Collection [Archive]
• W. P. Crozier Papers [Archive]
• Durward Cruickshank Papers [Archive]
• Crutchley Muniments [Archive]
• Cuban Women Writers Collection [Printed]
• Cuneiform Tablets [Manuscript]
• Neil Curry Papers [Archive]

D

• Dale Papers [Archive]
• John Dalton Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Dante Alighieri Printed Works [Printed]
• John Nelson Darby Papers [Archive]
• Alfred Darbyshire Collection [Archive]
• Rupert Davies Papers [Archive]
• Sir William Boyd Dawkins Papers [Archive]
• Deaf Education Collection [Printed]
• Basil Dean Archive [Archive]
• Delia Derbyshire Papers [Archive]
• Ely Devons Papers [Archive]
• Robert Donat Archive [Archive]
• Daniel Dougal Diaries [Archive]
• Anthony Dowd Bindings Collection [Printed]
• Ducie Muniments [Archive]
• Robert Dunlop Papers [Archive]
• Dutch Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Tony Dyson Papers [Archive]

E

• Early Preachers Collection [Archive]
• East India Company Papers [Manuscript]
• Echoes of Service Archive [Archive]
• Egerton of Tatton Papers [Archive]
• Egyptian Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Eighteenth-Century Literary Publications [Printed]
• Election Literature Collection [Printed]
• English Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• English Tract Collection [Printed]
• Raymond English Anti-Slavery Collection [Archive]
• Engravers' Trade Unions Archive [Archive]
• Esperanto Collection [Printed]
• Ethiopian Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Alfred Cyril Ewing Papers [Archive]

F

• B. R. Faunthorpe Papers relating to Joseph Whitworth [Archive]
• Elaine Feinstein Papers [Archive]
• Frederick S. Ferguson Book Collection [Printed]
• Fielden Brothers Papers [Archive]
• Samuel Finer Papers [Archive]
• Finney of Fulshaw Muniments [Archive]
• Fletcher-Tooth Collection [Archive]
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office Pamphlet Collection [Printed]
• Foulis Press [Printed]
• Frankland Papers [Archive]
• Edward Freeman Papers [Archive]
• Edward Freeman Printed Collection [Printed]
• Allen Freer Book Collection [Printed]
• Allen Freer Papers [Archive]
• French Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• French Revolution Collection [Printed]
• Freud Family Papers [Archive]
• Fry Collection [Archive]

G

• Elizabeth Gaskell Manuscript Collection [Manuscript]
• Elizabeth Gaskell Printed Works [Printed]
• Moses Gaster Manuscripts Collection [Manuscript]
• Moses Gaster Papers [Archive/Printed]
• Rylands Cairo Genizah Collection [Manuscript]
• German Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• George Gissing Collection [Printed/Archive]
• Max Gluckman Papers [Archive]
• John Graham Papers [Archive]
• Greater Manchester Mill Survey Archive [Archive]
• Greek Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Green Anti-Methodist Collection [Printed]
• Grey (Stamford) of Dunham Massey Papers [Archive]
• Guardian (formerly Manchester Guardian) Archive [Archive]
• Giovanni Battista Guarini Printed Works [Printed]
• Derek Guttery Papers [Archive]

H

• Mary Hamilton Papers [Archive]
• Rodney Harris Papers [Archive]
• Hartley Victoria College Collection [Archive]
• L. P. Hartley Book Collection [Printed]
• L. P. Hartley Papers [Archive]
• Haskalah Collection [Printed]
• Hayloft Press Archive [Archive]
• Heald-Hall Family Papers [Archive]
• Hebrew Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Gustave Adolphe Hemsalech Papers [Archive]
• Henshaws (Henshaw’s Society for Blind People) Archive [Archive]
• Hibbert-Ware Papers [Manuscript]
• Sydney Hickson Papers [Archive]
• Leslie Hilliard Papers [Archive]
• Samuel Hird Papers [Archive]
• History of Computing Collection [Archive/Printed]
• Hobill Collection [Printed]
• Hodgson, Robinson and Company Archive [Archive]
• Hiero von Holtorp Collection [Printed]
• Annie Horniman Papers [Archive]
• dom sylvester houédard Book Collection [Printed]
• dom sylvester houédard Papers [Archive]
• Mark Hovell Papers [Archive]
• Peter Huchel Collection of German Literature [Printed]
• Victor Hugo Book Collection [Printed]
• Victor Hugo Collection [Archive]
• Holman Hunt Papers [Manuscript]
• Hugh Hunt Papers [Archive]
• Robert Salmon Hutton Papers [Archive]

I

• ICI Dyestuffs Division Archive [Archive]
• Icelandic Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Illustrated Books [Printed]
• Incunabula Collection [Printed]
• Indian Empire and East India Company Printed Works [Printed]
• Industrial Mission Association Archive [Archive]
• Irish Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Ian Isherwood Papers [Archive]
• Italian Manuscripts [Manuscript]

J

• Jackson Family Papers [Archive]
• Dawson Jackson Papers [Archive]
• Jamison Family Archive [Archive]
• Japanese Collection [Printed/Manuscript]
• Sir Geoffrey Jefferson Papers [Archive]
• Elizabeth Jennings Papers [Archive]
• Jevons Family Papers [Archive]
• Jewsbury Papers [Manuscript]
• Jodrell Bank Observatory Archive [Archive]
• Jodrell Muniments [Archive]
• Adam Johnson Papers [Archive]
• George Johnson Wood-Engraving Collection [Printed]
• Samuel Johnson Printed Works [Printed]
• Stephen Joseph Papers [Archive]
• James Prescott Joule Papers [Archive]

K

• James Kay-Shuttleworth Papers [Archive]
• Jack Keiser Papers [Archive]
• Michael Kennedy Papers [Archive]
• Gordon Kinder Collection [Archive/Printed]
• Zdenek Kopal Papers [Archive]

L

• Walter Savage Landor Papers [Manuscript]
• Ronald Lane Papers [Archive]
• Latin Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• League of the Good Samaritan Archive [Archive]
• Legh of Lyme Muniments [Archive]
• Leycester of Toft Muniments [Archive]
• Li Yuan-chia Archive [Archive]
• Grevel Lindop Papers [Archive]
• Lloyd Roberts Collection [Printed]
• Jan Łukasiewicz Papers [Archive]

M

• James Ramsay MacDonald Papers [Archive]
• Niccolò Machiavelli Printed Works [Printed]
• Mainwaring Manuscripts [Archive]
• Manchester Airport Second Runway Inquiry Archive [Archive]
• Manchester Egyptian and Oriental Society Archive [Archive]
• Manchester Geographical Society Archive [Archive]
• Manchester Geographical Society Collection [Printed/Maps]
• Manchester Geographical Society Photographic Slides Collection [Photography]
• Manchester Joint Research Council Archive [Archive]
• Manchester Masonic Research Collection [Printed]
• Manchester Mechanics' Institution Archive [Archive]
• Manchester Medical Collection [Archive/Printed]
• Manchester Medical Society Archive [Archive]
• Manchester Pharmaceutical Association Archive [Archive]
• Manchester Reform Club Archive [Archive]
• Manchester Settlement Archive [Archive]
• Manchester Society of Architects Archive [Archive]
• Manchester and Salford College for Women Archive [Archive]
• Thomas Manson Papers [Archive]
• Marmorstein Collection [Printed]
• Arthur Milnes Marshall Papers [Archive]
• Mathematical Printed Works [Printed]
• Mazarinades Collection [Printed]
• Grigor McClelland Papers [Archive]
• McConnel and Kennedy Archive [Archive]
• Medical Manuscripts Collection [Manuscript]
• Medical Printed Collections [Printed]
• Records of the Medici Family of Florence [Archive]
• Melville Papers [Manuscript]
• Methodist Printed Book and Periodical Collections [Printed]
• Micklethwaite Correspondence [Manuscript]
• Midgley Reference Library [Printed]
• K. G. Millward Collection [Printed/Archive]
• John Milton Printed Works [Printed]
• George Mitchell Papers [Archive]
• Mo-So (Na-khi) Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Allan Monkhouse Papers [Archive]
• C. E. Montague Papers [Archive]
• Moravian Church Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Edgar Morton Papers [Archive]
• Mount Stuart Collection [Manuscript]
• Douglas Munro Alexandre Dumas père Collection [Printed]
• Thomas Munro Papers [Archive]
• Charles Fairfax Murray Papers [Manuscript]
• Music Collections [Manuscript/Printed/Archive]

N

• Lewis Namier Papers [Archive/Manuscript]
• Nantwich Parochial Library [Printed]
• National Medical Union Archive [Archive]
• Natural History and Ornithology Printed Works [Printed]
• Sir John E. Neale Book Collection [Printed]
• Francis Neilson Papers [Archive]
• Newbold Papers [Archive]
• Nicholas Papers [Archive]
• Nicholson Papers [Manuscript]
• Norman Nicholson Book Collection [Printed]
• Norman Nicholson Papers [Archive]
• J. R. Allardyce Nicoll Drama Collection [Printed]
• Nineteenth-Century Fiction [Printed]
• John Howard Nodal Archive [Archive]
• Marie Riefstahl Nordlinger Proust Collection [Printed]
• North West Playwrights Archive [Archive]
• North of England Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society Archive [Archive]
• Northern Baptist College Archive [Archive]
• Northern Baptist College Printed Collection [Printed]
• Jeff Nuttall Papers [Archive]

O

• Dorman O’Gowan Papers [Archive]
• Oldham Textile Employers’ Association Archive [Archive]
• Oldknow Papers [Archive]
• Orford Papers [Archive]
• Owen Owens and Son Archive [Archive]

P

• Pali Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Martin Parr Photography Collection [Photography]
• Parsi Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Partington Collection [Printed]
• Arthur Samuel Peake Papers [Archive]
• Persian Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Francesco Petrarch Printed Works [Printed]
• Henry Pettitt Papers [Archive]
• Phillipps Charters [Archive]
• Photography Collection [Photography]
• Margaret Pilkington Papers [Archive]
• Pink Papers [Manuscript]
• Pit Prop Theatre Company Archive [Archive]
• Pitt Collection [Manuscript]
• Sir Harry Platt Papers [Archive]
• Pluscarden Charters [Archive]
• Marcia Pointon Papers [Archive]
• Poll Book Collection [Printed]
• Giovanni Pontiero Papers [Archive]
• Giovanni Pontiero Papers [Archive]
• Ronald Preston Papers [Archive]
• Private Press Collection [Printed]
• Humphrey Procter-Gregg Archive [Archive]
• Protestant Reformation Printed Works [Printed]

R

• Thomas Raffles Collection [Manuscript]
• Railway Collections [Printed]
• Harold Burgoyne Rattenbury Papers [Archive]
• John Ernest Rattenbury Papers [Archive]
• John Rattenbury Papers [Archive]
• Stephen Raw Papers [Archive]
• Rawson/Wilson Anti-Slavery Papers [Manuscript]
• Eve Reymond Papers [Archive]
• Dorothy Richardson Papers [Manuscript]
• Henry Roscoe Papers [Archive/Manuscript]
• Frederick Rose Papers [Archive]
• William Michael Rossetti Papers [Manuscript]
• Henry Ling Roth Papers [Archive]
• Roundell Muniments [Archive]
• Peter Rowe Archive [Archive]
• Roxburghe Club Collection [Printed]
• Royal Botanical and Horticultural Society of Manchester and the Northern Counties Archive [Archive]
• John Ruskin Papers [Manuscript]
• John Ruskin Printed Works [Printed]
• Rylands Charters [Archive]
• Rylands and Sons Archive [Archive]
• Hymn Collection of John Rylands [Printed]
• John Rylands Library Archive [Manuscript]

S

• Frank Owen Salisbury papers [Archive]
• Samaritan Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Michael Schmidt Papers [Archive]
• Arthur Schuster Papers [Archive]
• Sedbergh School Library Collection [Printed]
• Seventeenth-Century Literary Publications [Printed]
• Shackleton Collection [Printed]
• William Shakespeare Printed Works [Printed]
• John Geoffrey Sharps Papers [Archive]
• William Arthur Shaw Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Simon Engineering Group Archive [Archive]
• Heinrich Simon Papers [Archive]
• Edward Allatt Upton Sinclair Book Collection [Printed/Archive]
• Peter Slade Collection [Archive]
• Smith Memorial Collection and Schunck Library [Printed]
• Grafton Elliot Smith Papers [Archive]
• Society of Medical Officers of Health, North Western Branch Archive [Archive]
• South-East Asian Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Spanish Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Spencer Collection [Printed]
• Edmund Spenser Printed Works [Printed]
• Spielmann Collection [Manuscript]
• Howard Spring Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Spring-Rice Collection [Manuscript]
• Stanbrook Abbey Press Collection [Printed]
• Stanley of Alderley Deeds and Papers [Archive]
• Stapleton Manuscripts [Archive]
• Wallace Stevens and the Cummington Press Collection [Archive]
• Stirland Public Health Collection [Archive]
• Marie Stopes and Birth Control Collection [Printed]
• John Strachan Book Collection [Printed]
• John Strachan Papers [Archive]
• Walter Strachan Collection [Archive]
• Raymond Streat Papers [Archive]
• Street Literature Collection [Printed]
• Sun Mill Archive [Archive]
• Sutherland Collection [Printed]
• Syriac Manuscripts [Manuscript]

T

• Tabley Book Collection [Printed]
• Tabley Muniments [Archive]
• James Tait Papers [Archive]
• Tanks Group Archive [Archive]
• Torquato Tasso Printed Works [Printed]
• Amable Tastu Papers [Archive]
• Tatton of Wythenshawe Muniments [Archive]
• Tealdi Correspondence [Manuscript]
• Teltscher Collection [Printed]
• Nigel Temple Book Collection [Printed]
• Tobias Theodores Papers [Archive]
• Francis Thompson Collection [Printed]
• Thomson-Byrom Collection [Archive]
• Thrale-Piozzi Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Tibetan Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Tout Family Archive [Archive]
• Tregaskis Bindings Collections [Printed]
• Alan Turing Collections [Archive]
• Turkish Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Dame Mabel Tylecote Papers [Archive]
• Dame Mabel Tylecote Printed Collection [Printed]
• Tynan-Hinkson Book Collection [Printed]
• Moses Tyson Papers [Archive]

U

• Unitarian College Archives [Archive]
• Unitarian College Printed Collection [Printed]
• University of Manchester Archives [Archive]
• George Unwin Papers [Archive]
• Sir Raymond Unwin Papers [Archive]
• Urwick Library [Printed]
• Alison Uttley Book Collection [Printed]
• Alison Uttley Papers [Archive]

V

• The British Victorian Photography Collection [Photography]
• Eugène Vinaver Collection [Printed]
• George H. Viner Bookplate Collection [Printed]
• Elfrida Vipont Papers [Archive]
• Voyages and Travels Printed Works [Printed]

W

• Wadsworth Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Warburton of Arley Muniments and Related Collections [Archive]
• Claude Wilson Wardlaw Papers [Archive]
• Mark Warner Photography Collection [Photography]
• Wedgwood Correspondence [Manuscript]
• Dennis and Joan Welland Papers [Archive]
• Wesley Collection (Rylands) [Printed]
• Wesley Family papers (Methodist Collections) [Archive]
• Charles Wesley Family Library [Printed]
• Charles Wesley Papers [Archive]
• Western (European) Manuscripts [Manuscript]
• Charles White Club Archive [Archive]
• Walt Whitman Book Collection [Printed]
• Walt Whitman Manuscript Collections [Manuscript]
• Whitworth Art Gallery Archive [Archive]
• Wickstead Papers [Archive]
• R. H. Wilenski Papers [Archive]
• John Wilkinson Papers [Archive]
• William Temple Foundation Archives [Archive]
• W. M. Wills Home Front Diaries [Archive]
• Wilmslow Quaker Collection [Printed]
• Papers of D. A. Wilson [Archive]
• H. J. Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection [Printed]
• Orde Wingate Collections [Archive]
• Thomas J. Wise Printed Works [Printed]
• Women in Theology Group Archive [Archive]
• Women's Suffrage Movement Archives [Archive]
• Wood Street Mission Archive [Archive]
• James Woolley, Sons and Co. Ltd Archive [Archive]
• Sir Hubert Worthington Papers [Archive]